Staffing OPT Jobs in Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Participate in monthly close activities, prepare journal entries and account reconciliations, perform variance analyses, and assist with other accounting projects and ad hoc requests as assigned. Position will initially support various project accounting duties, then evolve into fixed asset accounting duties.

• Project Accounting: IT Invoice Reconciliation: review IT project invoices by obtaining supporting documentation, including timesheets and fixed-fee contracts.

• Validate that costs meet the requirements for capitalization.

• Project Setup: create capital projects and maintain project master data in SAP S/4HANA.

• Coordinate with business partners to obtain required project information.

• Project Funding Administration: track project funding approvals, incremental funding requests, and fund transfers.

• Maintain complete audit documentation and ensure funding released in SAP aligns with approved authorization levels.

• Ariba Purchase Request Review: review and approve IT project contracts and Statements of Work (SOWs) submitted through Ariba.

• Partner with business stakeholders to revise contracts, as needed, to ensure compliance.

• Ariba Support: Assist business partners with WBS-related errors in Ariba, researching, troubleshooting, and resolving system issues while identifying root causes.

• Fixed Asset Accounting: Construction-in-Progress (CIP) Settlements: place completed capital projects into service for merchandise, Repairs & Maintenance (R&M), Loss Prevention (LP), and Sales Use Tax projects.

• Coordinate with business partners to obtain rollout schedules and in-service dates.

• Asset Disposals and Write-Offs: calculate fixture write-offs and process disposals for assets that have been retired or replaced.

• Coordinate quarterly with business partners to identify additional disposal activity.

• Validate asset additions and disposals, preparing and processing bi-monthly disposal entries as required.

• Depreciation Support: perform acquisition and exclusion reviews, prepare the depreciation reporting package, and complete the asset exclusion checklist.

• CIP Review: Conduct weekly reviews of Construction-in-Progress activity to ensure expenditures meet capitalization criteria and are recorded appropriately.

• Expense Project Reporting: prepare and communicate monthly expense project actuals to business partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Accounting, Economics, or Finance.

• 2+ years of relevant experience in accounting.

• Proficient in Ariba required.

• Experience supporting month-end close activities, including journal entries, account reconciliations, and variance analysis.

• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and accounting internal controls.

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA or other large ERP systems; SAP experience is strongly preferred.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including the use of pivot tables, lookups, and data analysis functions.

• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.

Here is more information:

Position: Staff Accountant

Term: 10+ month contract with possible extension

Schedule: Hybrid, 2-3 days onsite only Monday - Friday 8am-5pm CST

Location: Aurora, IL

Pay: $45-50/hr